An Early TRA Acknowledgement of Transgender-Feminist Tension?

When blogging this post, I looked at some other articles by the same transgender writer and found this interesting one from January 2016 titled, "Jaden Smith as a new face of womenswear might seem progressive - but he's on transgender territory." 

Jumping off from the announcement that Louis Vuitton had chosen Smith as the new face of its womenswear collection, the author of the piece argues that there is, at the least, a tension between the gender progress reflected by Jaden Smith's sartorial choices and the gender progress of transgender recognition and visibility: as the culture evolves to normalize men wearing women's clothes and vice versa without that being weird or wrong or undermining of men's manness or women's womanness, this cuts against transgender people's progress in attaining recognition and validation through their signalling their gender identification through their own clothing choices.

I bring this up here to point to the fact that woman called "TERFs" make this argument all the time--that gender identity doctrine reifies gender roles and stereotypes, and otherwise cuts against feminist fight against gender--and are condemned as bigots for it. 

Take the T Out? Drop the T? Get the L Out?

I recently came across this piece in The Independent (UK) entitled, "Why It's Time to Take the T Out of LGBT". 

It's by a transgender writer from 2015, and it argues that the T-LGB alliance should be rolled back as one is based on gender identity and the others on sexual orientation, and that combining the groups into a single coalition is confusing and even stigmatizing to transgender people by associating it with something sexual. 

I also recently saw a short video--looked like it was pulled from social media--from Fox Fisher making the same point, and arguing for the decoupling on grounds of political/rhetorical effectiveness. 

I'm just noting this as these days and for a few years, any mention by any LGB person of the possibility of splitting the coalition in the same way and for the same reason (political effectiveness of one's cause) is denounced as bigotry.